Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All New Jersey eating challenges and contests in database)
A web site for the May 15 pizza contest at Tony Boloney's in Atlantic City has been set up at www.pizzaslaughterfest.com Jon Squibb and Brad Sciullo are listed as expected entrants.
Hell's Kitchen Lounge in Newark, NJ has started a hot dog challenge: a customer who can eat 5 fully loaded hot dogs in under 5 minutes will receive the frankfurters and a T-shirt for free.
Registration opens today for the May 15 "Pizza Slaugher Fest" at Tony Boloney's in Atlantic City. Entrants will have to eat a slice of pizza from all 30 pizzas on the menu. Jon Squibb is expected to compete.
Pat from Moonachie vs. 5 “grease truck” sandwiches
HearUsTalk produced a video of Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin attempting to eat five sandwiches from the “grease trucks” on the campus of Rutgers University in under 45 minutes.
update Adam Richman had the following response to Pat’s feat: “Yeah but does he have the dopest TV show on the planet? I’m gonna go with…no.” (via DJnewstyle, who was blocked by Adam Richman)
update #2 Apr 6 11:34 am Craig noted that Adam Richman deleted his response, but it is still in the Google Cache
The website for My Little Fat Greek Restaurant in Freehold, New Jersey announces that Bill Myers was the first person to complete the "Fat Greek Challenge" by eating 5 souvlaki meat sandwiches in under an hour.
The website for the Lake House in Loch Arbour, NJ has been updated to report that Joel Podelsky ate 30 wings in 2 minutes and 36 seconds to win its wing eating contest yesterday (thanks for the link)
THE MLE facebook announces that a curly fry eating contest awarding $2,500 will be held at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, NJ (Cape May area) on Memorial Day (May 31).
Pat B wins Atlantic City King Cakes
Atlantic City Showboat King cake results from the eatingcontest twitter:
1) Pat Bertoletti 14 12 oz cakes, 8 minutes $2500, first win since Sept 2
2) Sonya Thomas 10.5 $1000 has finished in the top 3 off all “non-major” contests since May 23
3) Bob Shoudt 9 $500, first loss (outside the Krystal Square Off finals) since Sept 4
4T) Sean “Flash” Gordon 6.5
4T) Micah “Wing Kong” Collins
6T) Juliet Lee 6
6T) Dave “US Male” Goldstein
8 ) Pete Davekos 5.5
The start time for the king cake contest at the Showboat in Atlantic City is 4:15.
Bob Shoudt says his participation is in doubt due to a down server at his workplace.
update IFOCE.com has a contest report. Atlantic City Weekly has a video.
update #2 PressofAtlanticCity has a contest report (via Sean Gordon).
update #3 The MLE facebook has a gallery.
Atlantic City Weekly has a preview of next week's king cake contest.
NJ.com has a report and video from yesterday's Oyster Bowl XI contest held in Princeton, NJ won by Bill Forrest with 93 oysters in 2 minutes.
Will Millender was the first to finish the 18 inch pancake challenge at the Windsor Diner in Clark, New Jersey.
The MLE facebook has the field for the Atlantic City king cake contest: Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Sonya Thomas, Tim Janus, Juliet Lee, Micah "Wing Kong" Collins, Pete Davekos & Dave "US Male" Goldstein.
The Trentonian has an interview with Charles Plohn, who has competed in the previous 10 Oyster Bowls. Oyster Bowl XI will be held in Princeton, New Jersey on Sunday.
(Via Philadelphia City Paper) "Gluttonous Maximus" is a new youtube series about big Philadelphia area meals. Their first video is about the five pound burrito at the Tortilla Press in Collingswood, New Jersey.
Singer Jason Derulo ("Whatcha Say"), one of the opening acts on Lady Gaga's current tour, has uploaded a picture of his friend Sharon attempting to eat an 80 ounce steak at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City. (He has not posted if she finished it.)
Philly2Philly.com has a report on Thursday's Wing Off at P. J. Whelihan's in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
IFOCE.com announces that registration will open Thursday for the Fat Tuesday King Cake Eating Championship at the Showboat Atlantic City Hotel & Casino on February 16. WLOX is also awarding a slot in the peanut Butter & banana sandwich contest.
Five "Wing Off" qualifiers are listed on 610WIP's Wing Bowl 18 page. The first "Wing Off" is January 7 at PJ Whelihan's in Haddonfield, NJ.
The Great Moomsi & partners finish Zeus burger
TheGreatMoomsi.com has a video of Greg Maloomian and two teammates completing the Zeus Burger at the Clinton Station Diner in New Jersey. The listed weight of the burger is 12.5 pounds but the actual burger weight was over 14 pounds. A picture of the list of the diner’s challenges shows an award of $500 for a three person team finishing the Zeus in less than an hour.
The restaurant staff claimed that no team had previously completed the Zeus challenge, but a three person team in a 2005 AICE contest did finish the burger.
Man vs. Food December 9 (New Brunswick, NJ) episode links
Travel Channel episode guide | slideshow
- RU Hungry Grease Trucks challenge – 5 fat sandwiches
Yelp | Facebook
Extreme Pigouts segment about grease trucks
Rutgers student newspaper article about recording (contains spoilers) - Harold’s New York Deli meal – triple decker sandwich
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp | flickr gallery
Episode clip about triple decker sandwich
2008 New York Times article - Stuff Yer Face meal – giant stromboli
Homepage | Citysearch | Yelp
List of north New Jersey eating challenges in the eatfeats database.
Styrovor has a flickr gallery of her completion of a five pound burrito challenge at the Tortilla Press.
The 2010 Princeton Oyster Bowl will take place on February 7, 2010 (Super Bowl Sunday) and award a trip for two to Punta Cana or Cancun. (I have not seen any news about the 2010 Wing Bowl; Angelo Cataldi has not updated his blog in almost two months.)
A blog entry and video about the five pound burrito offered by the Tortilla Press in Collingswood, NJ are available.
NJ.com is requesting readers to submit New Jersey meals that could be eating challenges in upcoming episodes of Man vs. Food
Man vs. Food in Tristate area this week
Adam Richman is currently at the “Grease Trucks” on the campus of Rutgers University and will be attempting the 5 Fat Sandwich challenge at 5 PM today.
update The Rutgers student paper has a report on the filming (contains spoilers)
The twitter for Doogie’s Hot Dogs reports that Adam Richman will be recording there on Friday. Doogie’s is located in Newington, CT and no Connecticut episode is listed on season 2 episodes.
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